SOURCE UNIVERSE
17 companies, 17 different operating systems
GitLab
Handbook-first work, remote operations, decisions and competencies
Read →37signals
Small teams, career levels, pay and working rituals
Read →PostHog
Small autonomous teams, product strategy and hiring bar
Read →Bending Spoons
High-performance culture, daily operating system, selection and pay mechanisms, and people policies
Read →Automattic
Distributed work, written communication and support rotation
Read →Netflix
Talent density, context-led management and people over process
Read →Atlassian
Team health, decisions and actionable team exercises
Read →Buffer
Transparent pay, remote culture and organization experiments
Read →Zapier
Remote management, async habits and automation
Read →Elastic
Distributed organization, flexibility and progress-led culture
Read →Sourcegraph
High agency, asynchronous work and incremental product development
Read →HashiCorp
Written decisions, explicit operating cadence and principle-led management
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Oyster
Follow-the-sun handoffs, asynchronous communication and meeting design
Read →Niteo
Profit sharing, Kanban, onboarding and everyone participating in support
Read →Okta
Bonus targets, annual RSU grants and employee stock purchase program
Read →Airbyte
Living company processes for trust, transparency and speed
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TrussWorks
Distributed work, onboarding and open-source delivery guides
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